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2/4
|
15%
|
Mighty Fine (2012) |
"
Too many directions can be as much of a liability for a movie as too few, and "Mighty Fine" heads in all of them."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 24, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
A slick jeremiad, "Surviving Progress" is expertly made (it's far from tedious) but intellectually muddled."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 17, 2012
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|
3.5/4
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——
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The Story Of Film: An Odyssey () |
"
It's wildly ambitious, often extremely good, occasionally maddening, and always stimulating."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 16, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012) |
"
Spurlock weaves together several story lines."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
95%
|
Gerhard Richter Painting (2012) |
"
The sight of Richter going back and forth between two related canvases recalls Roger Federer playing tennis with himself in slow, deliberative motion."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
83%
|
Hipsters (2011) |
"
It's taken the Russian musical "Hipsters" four years to reach America. That's all right. It may take audiences four years to recover."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
|
1/4
|
22%
|
October Baby (2012) |
"
"October Baby" looks and feels like a Lifetime movie waiting not to happen."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 12, 2012
|
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2/4
|
89%
|
The Pruitt-igoe Myth: An Urban History (2012) |
"
Pruitt-Igoe was the first, and most famous, example of the failure of that sort of public housing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 5, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
75%
|
Free Men (2012) |
"
Rahim has the eyes of the young Mandy Patinkin. If only he had some of the wildness."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 22, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
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A Drummer's Dream (2012) |
"
Nearly all the interviews are with the professionals. That's fine, since these guys are almost as good at talking as they are at smiling."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 6, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
2%
|
One for the Money (2012) |
"
The movie has the by-the-numbers efficiency of a decent TV series, and about as much flavor."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 28, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
——
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Unfinished Spaces (2011) |
"
[A] fine, clear-eyed documentary about the art schools' fate."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 14, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster? (2012) |
"
A treatment of Foster so reverential it verges on camp."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 13, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Eames: The Architect And The Painter (2011) |
"
A basically adulatory and very lively look at the documentary's subjects."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Dec 6, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Profit Motive & the Whispering Wind (2008) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
74%
|
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
1/4
|
56%
|
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
45365 (2009) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
71%
|
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2010) |
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 24, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) |
"
Presumably, Colby would be pleased to know he comes across as neither compelling nor vivid - which in some ways makes him all the more interesting."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) |
"
The most interesting part of this lively, likable documentary is the journey."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 16, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
The Other F Word (2011) |
"
Lindberg's throwaway self-description of himself as getting by during a tour "on Ambien and hair dye'' may be the best line in a movie full of good ones."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 10, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
70%
|
Oranges And Sunshine (2011) |
"
The sincerity of feeling is unmistakable. So's the flat-footedness of the writing."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 3, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
The Three Musketeers (2011) |
"
Call it the Robert Downey Jr. Meets Sherlock Holmes Effect. A classic popular adventure gets overblown, juiced-up, and generally CGI-ified."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 23, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
9%
|
1911 (2011) |
"
With "1911,'' art direction speaks louder than words."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
67%
|
The City Dark (2012) |
"
The documentary tries to take on too much, but Cheney's enthusiasm for the subject makes that understandable."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Oct 6, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
81%
|
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011) |
"
It's slambang in pacing, bald in exposition, and offers cast-of-hundreds spectacle."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 22, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
54%
|
Farmageddon (2011) |
"
The one-sidedness of "Farmageddon'' isn't just an artistic failing. It's an argumentative failing, too."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
97%
|
Rapt (2011) |
"
"Rapt'' is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
The Hedgehog (2011) |
"
Enchantment will go a long way toward overcoming implausibility, but there's not enough of the former here - and far too much of the latter."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
72%
|
Magic Trip (2011) |
"
It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 1, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) |
"
This is a person you'd enjoy spending time with and learning from. That's certainly the case with Dorman's film."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Brighton Rock (2011) |
"
What was once an impurely pure outpost of Graham Greeneland now feels a bit like the Who's "Quadrophenia,'' with mods and rockers mixing it up around the edges."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 25, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011) |
"
The problem is that the heart of the movie is McGowan. He's just not a very compelling figure."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
14%
|
Zookeeper (2011) |
"
The talking animals are wildly child-pleasing, except that much of their talk concerns matters of animal husbandry. Is there such a thing as a hard PG?"
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 7, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
97%
|
Queen Of The Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? (2011) |
"
What we don't get in "Queen of the Sun'' is anyone suggesting there might be some merit to how agribusiness is conducted."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 23, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Jig (2011) |
"
"Jig'' is involving, if at times overly slick."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
69%
|
Bride Flight (2011) |
"
"Bride Flight'' is the sort of old-fashioned women's picture they stopped making around the time Christina Crawford had to put away the wire hangers."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 16, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
100%
|
Nostalgia for the Light (2011) |
"
A nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 9, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
77%
|
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (2011) |
"
Here's a riddle. Why is any documentary about Harper Lee like a doughnut? Because both have a hole in the middle."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 31, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
The First Grader (2011) |
"
You marvel all the more at Litondo's and Harris's performances, considering how much claptrap Ann Peacock's script requires them to put up with."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
84%
|
The Princess Of Montpensier (2011) |
"
How can the 16th-century heroine of a movie based on a 17th-century novella feel like such a 21st-century woman - without seeming at all anachronistic? That's the wonder of Bertrand Tavernier's "The Princess of Montpensier.''"
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
17%
|
Priest (2011) |
"
"Priest'' is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 16, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
11%
|
There Be Dragons (2011) |
"
"Inspired by true events'' the opening credits say. "Time to count the factual silverware,'' the moviegoer mutters."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 5, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
62%
|
Kill the Irishman (2011) |
"
As a kind of St. Patrick's Day hangover, "Kill the Irishman'' gets the job done."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Mar 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Nuremberg (2010) |
"
The most striking thing about Nuremberg is how it manages to be frankly didactic (note the subtitle) without ever at all feeling didactic."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 27, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Views On Vermeer () |
"
Much of the film is quite marvelous: relaxed yet lively, modest but confident. It's like a series of bracing conversations about an endlessly interesting subject."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jan 6, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
Gerrymandering (2010) |
"
The film's basic premise -- why can't politics be a reasonable, logical enterprise (like, say, making an indie documentary?) -- is at odds with the realities not just of the American political process but also human nature."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Nov 4, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
82%
|
Mademoiselle Chambon (2010) |
"
One way to think of Mademoiselle Chambon (a chambon is a piece of a horse's halter) is as Brief Encounter as reimagined by Eric Rohmer."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Sep 16, 2010
|
79%
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